I find it ironic you call me biased, when you're clearly biased towards Nvidia while ignoring the truth here.
GN has done several videos on EVGA exiting the business, it is both EVGA not being profitable making graphics cards, and CEO wanting to step down, according to GN the CEO was also tired of dealing with Nvidia.
EVGA did invest in making AMD motherboards, peripherals, and sound cards, although no one seemed to be interesting in anything except their gpu's and power supplies. Motherboards were already a niche for them so there isn't much else for EVGA to be profitable on besides power supplies.
Presenting the facts isn't finger pointing, Nvidia is a anti-competitive company which has tight control over all their AIB's down to how they design cards, Kingpin even hints at that in the GN video. And it isn't some coincidence Asus and Gigabyte aren't making any high end AMD cards or that MSI dropped them altogether.
Can you really blame them for not wanting to even bother with products the market has clearly rejected? With RDNA 4 being out of the high-end game and Battlemage coming after them at the low and midrange, you should fully expect this situation to worsen over time.
AMD needs to release products the market wants. Not what some boomers on tech forums nostalgic for the ATI days want. They need a trump card other than good Linux support. Like I said on my earlier post,
AMD's failure to captivate the market and motivate AIBs to develop products based on their architecture is nobody's but their own. There is no grand conspiracy from Nvidia here, no matter how much any of you may have a personal point to hate them.
If there was a shred of truth about these GPP allegations (really, you AMD guys can NEVER let a grudge go, it's been almost ten years and you are still harping about it), don't you think the FTC, money grubbing lawyers and at this $3.5T valuation, even NGOs wouldn't be rushing to get a check and spread as much negative publicity as possible? Come on.
Their investments failed - each and every one of EVGA's peripheral businesses have failed. Will you tell me that Nvidia is at fault for them to giving up on the NU Audio after the Asahi Kasei fire? Or is Nvidia at fault that they started to pump out junk tier power supplies that relied on their "world-class RMA, sure, our product is junk but if it blows up, we'll cover it!"? Is it Nvidia's fault that they stopped releasing new keyboards and mice after the last few they released received lukewarm at best reviews? That they abandoned most of their former ventures such as their network cards a loong time ago? Sure, just put it all on Uncle Jensen's tab!
Here's the reality outside of the red bubble: no one wants Radeons, especially at the high-end where people are actually willing to spend money on a better product, so why on Earth would any brand spend the R&D to develop a premium board based on an AMD chip unless they are exclusive to AMD? In that case, since you insist on a niche within a niche, Sapphire and TUL got you covered, and I haven't seen a XOC "Atomic" board from them in the past few generations either. TUL at least released those PowerColor Liquid Devil cards, which are probably the closest to a super-high-end AMD design we've had in years.
This might hurt AMD fans' feelings, but the truth is, until AMD itself stops releasing these awful product lineups one after another,
nobody will take them seriously. The graph even shows that the market at large cares not one bit for this AMD v. NV squabble, every time AMD released a product that the market wanted, the market share had a direct response.
I was wondering where Kingpin would end up. I was never a follower of his but I did like to see the crazy OC he did on GPUs.
There was more going on than that but Nvidia isn't entirely to blame. Here's an article that may be of interest that I remember at the time. JPR reported that 80% of EVGA's revenue came from GPUs but also that EVGA accounted for 40% of Nvidia GPU sales overall. A hell of a lot of gamers liked and trusted EVGA cards and designs. I had a few myself over the years.
Profit margins for AIB partners were becoming abysmal while Nvidia's profits continued to soar. Ripe ground for resentments to grow.
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EVGA will continue selling current-gen GeForce cards until it runs out of stock.
arstechnica.com
Is this exclusive to GeForce or does this account for first-party enterprise hardware that did not previously exist as well? That's an extreme caveat to the point that it would completely invalidate the argument otherwise.
, there is no way to keep the 4090 below 31C on watercooling/aircooling
